MediaFire Launches Linux/Open Source-Friendly Cloud Storage

MediaFire has released an open source toolkit which supports Linux and FreeBSD.

Another cloud storage vendor is eyeing the open source community. This week, MediaFire announced a new open source toolkit compatible with Linux and FreeBSD, giving Linux desktop fans another cloud storage option to compete with Dropbox, Google Drive and the like.

MediaFire’s open source developer toolkit, which it announced Jan. 21, provides several tools, among them a FUSE interface for POSIX-compatible operating system. In non-programmer terms, the FUSE tool makes it possible to connect applications running on Linux, FreeBSD and most other Unix-like operating systems to MediaFire’s cloud storage platform, and to access and sync MediaFire files through interfaces such as the Nautilus file manager….